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Nothing was safe where they went, and though, in the course of time, each article found its way back to its owner in a manner as mysterious as its previous abstraction, the scandal grew and, whether with good reason or bad, finally settled about the person of Miss Driscoll, who was the showiest, least pecuniarily tempted, and most dignified in manner and speech of them all.
"Oh, that reminds me " instead of obeying her he unfolded the paper. "I brought it in to show you something. Jim Driscoll's been appointed Ambassador to England." "Jim Driscoll !" She caught up the paper and stared at the paragraph he pointed to. Jim Driscoll that pitiful nonentity, with his stout mistrustful commonplace wife!
It was galling to be beaten, and there was some danger unless the craft was handled well. Steadiness and skill were needed, but after all the risk was not greater than he had often run in the mine and on the frozen trail. The daunting thing was that Driscoll, whom they had expected to steer the canoe, looked afraid. He crouched astern, paddling in a slack, nerveless manner.
In fact, he was even a teetotaler sometimes when it was judicious to be one. The twins left with Buckstone, and Tom Driscoll joined the company with them uninvited. In the distance, one could see a long wavering line of torches drifting down the main street, and could hear the throbbing of the bass drum, the clash of cymbals, the squeaking of a fife or two, and the faint roar of remote hurrahs.
The scorching heat of the sun at first starting, and subsequent cold and rain, threw the whole party into fevers. They were kindly treated by the inhabitants, who brought them abundance of provisions, and they were conveyed in a large proa to Achin. Here Dampier was placed under the charge of Mr Driscoll, a resident in the East Indian Company's factory.
She sat upright, tensely quiet, and thought over all Fifi had said all she had threatened. "It would have been far better," Eunice told herself, "for my cause if I had held her friendship. And I could have done it, easily but Fifi's friendship would be worse than her enmity!" When Mason Elliott came, Detective Driscoll was with him.
Driscoll missed another small sum of money which is a way of saying that this was not a new thing, but had happened before. In truth, it had happened three times before. Driscoll's patience was exhausted. He was a fairly humane man toward slaves and other animals; he was an exceedingly humane man toward the erring of his own race.
When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam as men who "didn't know what fear was," we ought always to add the flea and put him at the head of the procession. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar Judge Driscoll was in bed and asleep by ten o'clock on Friday night, and he was up and gone a-fishing before daylight in the morning with his friend Pembroke Howard.
On the way he kicks my legs black-and-blue from the knees down; and I've got to have two or three bites on my thumb and hand cauterized. "But he's gone" continues Bill "gone home. I showed him the road to Summit and kicked him about eight feet nearer there at one kick. I'm sorry we lose the ransom; but it was either that or Bill Driscoll to the madhouse."
"Not all day," vouchsafed Ferdinand. "They can be turned so the bolt doesn't catch, and are turned that way in the daytime, usually." "But," and Driscoll looked at him intently, "you can swear that the bolts were on last night?" "Yes, sir " "You can't!" Hendricks shot at him. The lawyer had been listening in silence, but he now refuted Ferdinand.
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